Report: FBI Reopens Assange Investigation
An Australian newspaper reported Thursday the F.B.I. sought to question Julian Assange’s former ghostwriter in London as the U.S. continues a probe that resulted in an indictment three years ago…
Patrick Lawrence: John Durham and the Burying of American History
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost There are certain things I do not quite get since Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the epically corrupt conduct of Donald Trump’s…
Chris Hedges: Why the Conspiracy Theory About Trump and Russia Won’t Go Away
The latest investigation into the charges that Donald Trump’s campaign worked in concert with the Russian government exposes a cynical collaboration between Trump opponents and the FBI.
Eight Takeaways From the Durham Report
Susan Schmidt examines the highlights and lowlights of the new Special Counsel report on Trump-Russia.
Special Counsel Reveals 2016 Trump-Russia FBI Investigative Failure
By Max Jones / Original to ScheerPost A four-year investigation conducted by U.S. Special Counsel John Durham has concluded that the FBI lacked “actual evidence” to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016…
Patrick Lawrence: Journalists-on-Journalists Crime
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I’ve read a lot of smear since Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson as its premier evening news presenter late last month. How could…
FBI Bookstore Spying in Chicago Eyes Abortion Rights, Cop City, Anti-Development Activists
Nearly 30 pages of FBI documents obtained by Unicorn Riot reveal a pattern of monitoring of Pilsen Community Books, a worker-owned and collectively managed bookstore in the Pilsen neighborhood of…
In FBI Case, the First Amendment Takes Another Bizarre Hit
The same Democratic minority staff that trashed the First Amendment in last week's Twitter Files hearings put something amazing in writing in a parallel case.
Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jason Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud
The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork.
Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s Secret Stash
If this president didn’t know he was in possession of classified documents, in some cases for more than a decade, he simply is not qualified to hold any public office…
Ex-CIA Agent John Kiriakou: The Deep State’s Attack on Dissent Beginning With MLK
The FBI, CIA, NSA and other agencies have historically exploited their power but their limits appear boundless in the modern age.
J. Edgar Hoover was the QAnon of his Era, and Martin Luther King Jr. was the Victim of his Dirty Tricks
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ours is an age beset by conspiracy theories, with the fascist QAnon cult at the center of much public…
FBI Cointelpro Is Back and Worse Than Ever
By James Bovard / CounterPunch Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI’s latest war on Americans’ freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to…
How Terror Came Home and What to Make of It
By Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch Recently, an agent of the Department of Homeland Security called me and started asking questions about a childhood acquaintance being investigated for extremism. I put…
Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Studying employment databases, MintPress has ascertained that hundreds of agents from Israeli military intelligence and spying organization Unit 8200 are now employed in influential roles in many of the world’s…